Although I voiced support for a CompileIt!-style product, the need is far less than existed in HC, as I continue to learn.
While we are floating the idea though, I envisage a separate product from Rev, as was CompileIt! from HC, rather than inbuilt capability. Why? Because no-one should fiddle with handles and pointers without damn-good driving lessons and background knowledge of what it is they are playing with. It would soon turn people off RR if they thought such capability a normal or expected-use part of the product and then crashed and burned as they over-wrote their pointers, failed to manage memory and struggled with low-level debugging. Hardly the RR experience we enjoy. Similarly, Java is productive for its safety features (no pointer access) as much as its cross-platform capability. Rev's avoidance of strong typing is itself a language strategy, appealing to some and not to others. I like the idea, but as an add-on, not a product change, hence my support also for separate licensing for a "modest" fee. regards David On Sunday, February 24, 2002, at 03:59 , Rob Cozens wrote: >> Since it seems to be the vertical platform-specific stuff where we >> need the >> most help, it may bring us the biggest bang for the buck to have some >> means >> of making OS calls directly in the language. We'd have to type our >> vars, >> but that's a small price to pay for all that flexibility. > > Richard, et al: > > If it is not a major undertaking, it would be the preferred approach. I > was trying to leverage the concept by suggesting it could be a source of > additional revenue to MC/RR Inc. rather than additional cost to be > amortized by MC/RR sales. > > On the surface it seems only to require variable typing (including > support > for handles & pointers), ability to build & extract info from system > parameter packets, and a built-in knowledge of the number and type of > arguments for each system call (a la CompileIt's built-in libraries > and/or > buildable by the developer). > > Rob Cozens > CCW, Serendipity Software Company > > "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; > Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." > > from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
